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THE ALMA VALLEY

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“АЛЬМИНСКАЯ ДОЛИНА”

Глядя на эту крымскую идиллию сейчас, и не подумаешь, что 20 сентября 1854 года на берегах реки Альмá произошла кровавая битва межу русской армией и англо-франко-турецкими войсками, ставшая первым сражением Крымской войны. К слову, тюркизм «альмá» означает «яблоко». Именно в честь этой крымской реки и сражения — а не похожего испанского слова «alma» («душа») — в Британии по сей день популярно имя Alma, а в Париже сооружен мост Pont de l'Alma.

Looking at this idyllic Crimean landscape now, one can hardly imagine that on September 20, 1854, near the Alma River, a bloody battle between the Russian army and the Anglo-Franco-Turkish allies opened the Crimean War. By the way, the Turkic word “almá” means “apple”. It is after this Crimean river and the battle—and not after the Spanish world “alma” (“soul”)—that many British babies were named and that the famous bridge Pont de l'Alma was built in Paris.

Date: June 29, 2013.

Materials
: white acrylic, black ink, colored pencils, gel pen, white correction fluid on paper, 30x42 cm.

Материалы: чёрные чернила, белила акриловые, гелевая ручка, белый "штрих", цв. карандаши, бумага, 30х42 см.

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Interesting man, Alma is a name of Turkic origins when it comes to the English definition of the word. By the way, with my studying of international history beyond the official Anglo-American/Western European narrative. It kinda see the aftermath of the Crimean War as symbol of British Anglo-Dutch mercantile hypocrisy. Yes, allot of Tsarist authorities of the time where fudual, racist, and autocratic in attitude, but they never allowed for private bankers to be legally protected once they where caught participating in act of perpetual debt peonage know as the act of usury. Or allow for the national treasury of Petersburg to be privatize to privately chartered financial corporation and speculators of debt based loans of no value in a roller coaster ride of credit bubbles and deflationary money famines which the Bank Of England was well known for in opposition circles. Even with the history of famines, antisemitism, Chechen raids, and autocratic rule along with the suppression of Finnish, Polish, and Ukrainian nationalist. At least French and Nordic philosophy and though was assimilated into elite Russian culture allot more than it was in Turkey during that time.